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terminal row of rufous lunules tipped with white; hindwing reddish brown, paler basewards; the fringe white. 
Described from a single $ from Sarawak, Borneo. 
E. latreillei Hup. (—quieta Tr. nec Hbn., roseitelum Walk.) (Vol. 3, pi. 44 f). Forewing whitish laireillei. 
suffused with pale and dark grey, and in parts with blackish fuscous; inner and outer lines black edged 
with white; a prominent white spot before inner line on submedian fold; stigmata dark grey, with 
interrupted pale outlines; the reniform with a white dot beyond lower outer angle; submarginal line 
poAvdery white, interrupted by the oli\ T e or pinkish veins, and preceded by a pink wedge shaped mark on 
vein 6; a lunulate white line close before termen; fringe olive yellow, chequered with white; hindwing fus¬ 
cous, paler towards base in the <$. A widely spread Palaearctic and African species, occurring also through¬ 
out India. Larva redbrown, with a black dorsal triangle broadly edged with yellow on each segment; 
lateral lines yellow, with a black spot on each segment; feeding on Ceterach officinarum and other ferns. 
E. strigilineata Hmps. (19d). Forewing pale greyish brovm with a slight rufous or olive tinge \ strigilineata. 
the veins pale olive; subbasal line Avhite, edged with black; inner line brown, double, filled in with 
whitish, outcurved and plain from costa to subcostal vein and from submedian fold to vein 1, indented 
and obscure betAveen; an obliquely curved Avhite striga from submedian fold to vein 1; orbicular stigma 
irregularly rounded, olive brown with white ring; reniform paler, inwardly edged by a sinuous white 
bar, and outwardly by a white dot at upper end, two at loAver end, and a Avhite dash between; 
space between stigmata dark brown, traversed by a diffuse median shade, oblique beloAv from reniform; 
outer line slender, lunulate dentate, rufous olive, broader and white below submedian fold, inwardly 
margined by a toaa 7 of black lunules, which is preceded by a band of pale olive; a similar pale olive 
band beyond outer line; subterminal line white, minutely zigzag to vein 7, then forming an irregular lun- 
ule outAvards above 6, two faint whitish spots inwardly to vein 5 and another lunule outwards betAA r een 
5 and 4, thence obscure, pale greenish dusted AA r ith white; a toav of dark olive lunules along termen 
edged with snow white, those at costa with 3 spots; fringe olive, with pale basal and dark middle line, 
the apical half mottled with white between the veins; hindwing pale grey broAA'n, with grey cellspot and 
sinuous outer line; the terminal area broAvner, Avith dark olive grey-tipped markings before termen; 
fringe whitish with pairs of dark spots beyond veins. A fine species, recorded only from Sikkim, N. India. 
E. nivetacta Warr. (19 d). Smaller and darker than strigilineata ; foreAving blackish fuscous dusted nivetacta. 
with olive, suffused in median area with violaceous; veins pinkish, becoming olive terminally; sub- 
basal line Avhite, edged with black; inner line strongly excurved, black, edged on both sides with yelloAvish 
Avhite, with an oblique white mark from submedian fold to vein 1; orbicular stigma oblique, broA\ r n, with 
a white ring, broader above; reniform oblique inwards, edged with a white line on each side meeting in a 
curve at top, the centre reddish on a brown ground, the loAver outer end swollen, and followed by 
an oblique white dash; outer line rufous olive, preceded by a row of black lunules and followed by a 
belt of violaceous grey; subterminal line marked by large snow Avhite elongate spots above veins 7, 
6, and 4, and a small dot nearer outer line above 5; before the termen a row of snow white lunules 
edging black terminal spots; fringe blackish mottled with white, and with a yellow basal line; hindwing 
dark fuscous, paler toAvarcls base and costa. Kliasia Hills, Assam. 
E. variegata Swinh. (19 d). Forewing olive green with some darker shading and dusted with black; variegata. 
subbasal line marked by a black streak from costa and another beloAv cell; inner line double, obscure 
and interrupted, preceded by black marks in submedian interval and beloAv vein 1; orbicular and reniform 
stigmata green, indistinctly defined, Avith black between them and slightly black-edged; beyond the lower 
end of the reniform tAvo bright white spots; outer line black, lunulate dentate, Avidely outcurved to 
vein 4, then incurved, followed by a dark shade; submarginal line pale green, indistinctly defined, except 
at costa, where it is marked by a snow white blotch to vein 7, on which it is angled outwards, then 
fine and oblique to vein 6, beloAv which it is followed by a blackish blotch; a roAA r of large black 
terminal lunules; fringe olive green; the tooth of scales at anal angle green mixed with black; hind¬ 
wing greenish fuscous, paler basewards, with traces of a dark outer line. Bhutan and the Khasia Hills, 
Assam; Borneo. 
E. leucobasis limps. (19 e). Forewing deep olive fuscous tinged Avith purplish; lines blackish, dif- leucobasis. 
fuse, indistinct and interrupted; subbasal marked below costa and cell; inner line only visible beloAA* 
middle, blackish and incurved; outer line black, lunulate dentate, outwardly pale-edged, plainest beloAA 7 
middle; orbicular and reniform hardly discernible, the latter with two pale points beyond its loAA'er ex¬ 
tremity; subterminal line dentate, snow white from costa to vein 6, oblique and yellowish to 4, then 
dark and obscure; sometimes the space between outer line and submarginal is wholly pale and blurred; 
small black terminal spots tipped with Avhite; hindwing with basal third yellowish white, the outer area 
blackish fuscous, containing a dark line or shade on its inner edge. A small species found in the Khasia 
Hills, Assam, Ceylon, Perak in the Malay Peninsula, and Java. 
